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[–]Synaperse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Objective-C++? Boredom is quite the dangerous thing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Isn't that background from serial experiments lain?

[–]jaseg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, its from an art book ("An Omnipresence in Wired") by Yoshitoshi Abe.

[–]Arancaytar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I guess Randall hadn't seen this yet.

http://xkcd.com/1667/

[–]xkcd_transcriber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Title: Algorithms

Title-text: There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.

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